Multitasking costs in close-head injury patients: A fine-grained analysis

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 152, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 29-41

  Dell'Acqua, Roberto ^a   Pashler, Harold ^c   Stablum, Franca ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Closed head injury; Dual task performance; Speed of processing; Visual encoding

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXPERIMENTATION; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HEAD INJURIES, CLOSED; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0041410160     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-003-1512-7     Document Type: Article

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